Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth judge , Stephen J. , appears to have considered that the wife 's consent to sexual intercourse would in certain circumstances be vitiated . |
| 2 | Clearly , if a communist revolution was to take place in a country like Russia , the historical stage marked by capitalism would in great part have been skipped . |
| 3 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 4 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 5 | In further discussion , it was suggested that , even though opinion was divided on the merits and on the question whether the abolition of the death penalty would in normal circumstances give rise to an increase in the number of murders , the Cabinet might be able to agree that this was not an appropriate moment at which to take the risk of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 6 | Mr Laws submitted that ( 1 ) the expectation was that the doctor would in general provide for his patients a full-time service . |
| 7 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |